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Hijacked Plane In PASSENGER 57 Was A Lockheed Widebody

posted 10 years ago by layton59
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Hijacked Plane In PASSENGER 57 Was A Lockheed Widebody.

Lockheed made 250 of these planes before ending their commercial plane business ventures of the time. They needed to sell 500 in order to break-even.

Here is a wiki on the Lockheed L-1011 Tristar:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L1011

It sounds like a pretty nice plane. Too bad Boeing, McDonnell-Douglas and Airbus gobbled up most of the widebody commercial jet market.

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[–] ShallowAl69 9 years ago

Didn't that air hostess/stewardess/flight attendant who wasn't Elizabeth Hurley say that the plane they were was a jumbo jet?!

[–] CTReviews 9 years ago

747s DC-10s, and Lockheed L1011s were all considered jumbos in the 70s. When air traffic controllers refer to a flight that is one of these jets, they have to attach the word "heavy" as a reminder to keep planes trailing it at a further distance because of the wake turbulence they generate.